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by leokennis 9mo ago
I remember feeling like a right scientific benefactor running the SETI@Home screensaver on my Pentium II, looking at the fancy graphs. Was it all for nothing?
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by leokennis 9mo ago
I have slowly but steadily made myself not rely on Apple anymore: files moved to NextCloud, mail and calendars moved to Fastmail, etc. Platform agnostic choices, because clearly Apple is not to be trusted anymore as the guardian of good tas
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by leokennis 9mo ago
> an average white-collar workers will find .md much more suspicious because they don't know what it is while they work with .docx files every day I think the truly average white collar worker more or less blindly clicks anything an
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by leokennis 9mo ago
> They're after the enterprise market I am curious how big of a chance they have. I could imagine many enterprises that are already (almost by default) Microsoft customers (Windows, Office, Entra etc.) will just default to Copilot (
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by leokennis 9mo ago
I'm not sure if it's pure nostalgia but I long back to the "Lion era" of OS X. Apple had a HIG and third party developers used it. Different apps looked consistent: toolbar, sidebar etc. Apps had borders. If there was to
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by leokennis 11mo ago
I can wholeheartedly recommend Marcel Vos' YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlXovStrlQkVA2xJEROUNg He is basically reverse engineering and explaining RCT's logic and design, but does it via
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by leokennis 11mo ago
> Dutch car taxes are based on CO2 emissions and weight, these 'cars' from the US will be pricing themselves out of market anyway. Look at the license plates of these "tokkie tanks": they all start with a "V&quot
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by leokennis 11mo ago
I have so many suggestions. But if I had to pick one: Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Start of the Lid
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by leokennis 1y ago
I find Synology NAS's to be at the sweet spot between "too simple for anything except accessing some files remotely via the vendors app" (like WD) and "another tech babysitting project". DSM is rock solid in my opin
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by leokennis 1y ago
> When was the first CD rack? And when will be the last... Recently a webshop accidentally sent me my order of two fantastic jazz CD's twice and they did not want me to return them. I tried to offload them for free on anyone I know
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by leokennis 1y ago
First off, stealing is not allowed. I don't know the finer details of intellectual property law, but if IKEA according to that would be stealing designs than that is not OK. Second however, engineering products in such a way that you c
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by leokennis 1y ago
I absolutely love this approach. It is in the spirit of https://1x.engineer/ and it should be applauded.
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by leokennis 1y ago
I think 99% of WhatsApp users would gladly stop using WhatsApp and switch to something like Signal, if they had verbal agreements of "everyone else" that they would also switch. Everyone is only on WhatsApp because everyone is on
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by leokennis 1y ago
Actually Facebook and WhatsApp are the only products I know of where even completely non-tech people like my mom or the other parents at my soccer game have ever mentioned something along the lines of "yeah I did X on Facebook so now w
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by leokennis 1y ago
I'm with you. My phone is my primary computer. I want it to have the most computing power, battery life, storage, and camera performance possible. I don't really care for its looks as long as it meets a certain baseline.
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by leokennis 1y ago
I shudder to be on the receiving end of these, using a phone with Apple "Intelligence" as its AI backend.
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by leokennis 1y ago
Regarding the second point, while I gladly agree the current iOS Photos app is a mess, doesn't it make sense to have photos in multiple albums? If I went on holiday to Brazil and made a nice photo of my son there, I'd like that ph
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by leokennis 1y ago
Notion does the same; every database entry is a separate note/page. As someone working with databases often it “freaked me out”. Over time I’ve learned to accept it…
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by leokennis 1y ago
On the other hand, working at $BIGCORP will probably give you very good domain knowledge (as $BIGCORP's software is likely complex and actively used by many many people who signed very expensive contracts, and besides that also the kno
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by leokennis 1y ago
Commenting just on: > > It's satisfying to write software used by millions of people. > > Is it still satisfying if that software is bad, or harms many of those people? I work for a bank, so the software/service my co
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by leokennis 1y ago
Same here...NextDNS randomly started intermittently breaking all connections to Apple (iCloud file sync, Apple Music etc.) and basically nothing was done about it. Moved to AdGuard DNS, very happy with it. They have random sales throughout
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by leokennis 1y ago
And still the Garmin offers much of the same functionality. It seems Apple is wasting 30 × battery life just to be 2 × "nicer" than a Garmin.
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by leokennis 1y ago
Wait an AMOLED with 30 days of battery life? Why/how can my Apple Watch barely make it through 24 hours? What’s the fundamental difference between these two smartwatches that accounts for a 30× decrease in battery life?
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by leokennis 1y ago
Didn't know ChatGPT was on HN
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by leokennis 1y ago
Should anyone appreciate it, this Shortcut for your iOS/iPadOS device will set your wallpaper to the current sky based on this nice tool: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c8ba254a0272453cbe39357b144... Just make s
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by leokennis 1y ago
Or the combination of 1 and 4. If a company is willing to pay you a lot of money for “9 to 5”, there’s all the reasons in the world to just take it.
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by leokennis 1y ago
Simplified, but if CEO's want to make the big bucks when their developers create some great new feature, they should also stop making the big bucks (resign) when their developers mess up.
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by leokennis 1y ago
Liking AdGuard too. Both their DNS offering (basically a Pi-Hole in the cloud), and their iOS content blocker. Especially because I can subscribe to third party blocklists like HaGeZi, and AdGuard will load/transform them into Apple&#x
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by leokennis 1y ago
It is insanity. In Amsterdam, houses go for €9,000 per square meter. So a parking space should cost around ~ €9,000 × 12m2 = €108,000. Meanwhile parking permits for inhabitants go for €500-€750 per year. It's the cheapest real estate a
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by leokennis 1y ago
This is a good one. My phone is my memory. If I ever need to be without a phone, I 100% need to carry a notebook and pen. And likely a camera.

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